Re: notices nightmare - looking for a regex solution
| From: | Govinda | Date: | Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:08:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: notices nightmare - looking for a regex solution | ||
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> I am working on a pretty huge site with thousands of files with php code. Unfortunatelly the
> app throws a ton of notices du to missing '' in arrays. Of course I could simply disable
> the output on the dev server to surpress notices, but I would rather like to get it fixed.
>
> Has somebody a good idea on how to fix this automated somehow with regex?
>
> The vars are right now: $var[element] and should be $var['element']
>
> I was looking into sed, but I was hoping that there is also a way in php. Has anybody a hint on
> how to get the regex done?
>
> I appreciate any help on that.
Hi Merlin
I don't know what is sed, (and perhaps this is what you meant by that), but a good text editor
could do the job in one decent regex, global replace. Seems like asking PHP to do it is the same
task, plus the added code (hassle) to walk all your directories for affected files.
- Govinda